Every Graham user gets at least one - default - account on the Graham's scheduler - def-userid (each user has a different userid). Users with RAC allocation(s) also get additional account(s). Each job script (and each salloc command) has to include the intended account name in the "-A account" argument.

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To make life easier, you can add the following lines at the end of your .bashrc file:

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Graham has a small number of interactive nodes reserved for short (<12 hours) jobs. They should only be used for testing / debugging your code.

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To access these nodes, use the following commands (instead of sbatch) when submitting the job:

Latest revision as of 13:42, 11 September 2017

IMPORTANT: to login to Graham, you have to use your Compute Canada credentials (login name and password), not your SHARCNET credentials!

Graham is the largest and by far the most powerful cluster among the current SHARCNET fleet of supercomputers. Graham is also known as GP3, and is a part of the major renewal of academic supercomputers in Canada in 2017, with the other new systems being Arbutus (GP1) in the University of Victoria, Cedar (GP2) in Simon Fraser University, and Niagara (LP) in the University of Toronto. A SHARCNET system notice will be sent to all users when Graham is ready for access. SHARCNET users will be able to login to this system at graham.computecanada.ca with their Compute Canada username and password. In the meantime several resources have been put into place for users to familiarise themselves with the usage of this new system.

General information about migrating work from existing systems to the new national general purpose systems is available on the Compute Canada Wiki page at:

A recent SHARCNET General Interest Webinar describes what to expect from the new systems and demonstrates some important usage differences from other SHARCNET systems. A recording of this webinar is available at the SHARCNET YouTube channel:

Once that the Graham system is available SHARCNET staff will be presenting daily demonstrations of basic work flow on Graham. Following a brief usage demonstration the support staff will stay online for the remainder of the hour to discuss access and usage topics relating to the Graham system. These live demonstrations/discussions will be posted with other SHARCNET events on the calendar at:

Quick facts

Default account

Every Graham user gets at least one - default - account on the Graham's scheduler - def-userid (each user has a different userid). Users with RAC allocation(s) also get additional account(s). Each job script (and each salloc command) has to include the intended account name in the "-A account" argument.

To make life easier, you can add the following lines at the end of your .bashrc file: